Social Media History

History of Social Media

Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Nov 15, 2011

First Email Sent

Jul 26, 1971

First Web Browsers

Mar 15, 1978

The first bulletin board was created at this time.

BBS Exchanged Data Over Phone Lines

Apr 3, 1978

First Social Networking site created

Dec 4, 1994

Geocities was founded, which was user to create websites.

The Globe Created First User Generated Website

Apr 3, 1995

AOL instant messanger

Nov 20, 1997

it made instant messaging popular

Friendster was Launched

Sep 28, 2002

Myspace was Created

Aug 20, 2003

Facebook was Created

May 18, 2004

Twitter was Created

Nov 18, 2006